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CPE/EE 422/522
Advanced Logic Design
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alabama in Huntsville
28/05/2003 UAH-CPE/EE 422/522 AM 2
Motivation
•Benefits
of HDL-based design
–Portability
–Technology independence
–Design cycle reduction
–Automatic synthesis and
Logic optimization
•… But, the gap between
available chip complexity
and design productivity
continues to increase
Design productivity
21% / year
Chip Complexity
58% / year
28/05/2003 UAH-CPE/EE 422/522 AM 3
Educators Mission
•Educate future generations of designers
–Emphasis on hierarchical IP core design
–Design systems, not components!
–Understand hardware/software co-design
–Understand and explore design tradeoffs between
complexity, performance, and power consumption
⇒Design a soft processor/micro-controller core
28/05/2003 UAH-CPE/EE 422/522 AM 4
UAH Library of Soft Cores
•Microchip’s PIC18 micro-controller
•Microchip’s PIC16 micro-controller
•Intel’s 8051
•ARM Integer CPU core
•FP10 Floating-point Unit
